Even if it is an enemy attack, even if there are many enemies, it is still very easy to escape because the guard camp has three horses.
Unless it is surrounded on all sides.
Li Chengzhi put on his pocket and quickly left the tent.
Today is April 12th, and the moon is very bright. Even though the open fires have been extinguished everywhere in the camp, Li Chengzhi can still see the outline.
These personal guards have been in battle for a long time, and they are very calm. They prepare arrows and draw swords, and there is no trace of panic.
Li Chengzhi nodded with satisfaction and saw Li Liang running over quickly and reported respectfully: "A scout just came to report that they found a horse bandit fighting with Hu Shang about 20 miles east of Shandan County.<
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There are three or four hundred horse thieves nearby, and Hu Shang is outnumbered. He collapses at the first touch and is fleeing to the west... The horse thieves are chasing after him, and they will chase them around the county town in two seconds at most..."
So it’s not for you?
But Li Chengzhi couldn't help but darken his face.
Hu Shang is running for his life, and it’s still at night, so there’s no direction or plan?
It is even more impossible to just run in the direction of the county seat. If nothing unexpected happens, 99% of the caravan guards will flee in this direction.
There is absolutely no doubt that there will definitely be pursuers chasing you.
They were both on horseback, and they were about twenty or thirty miles away in an instant. No matter whether I wanted to hide or leave, it was already too late...
Wanting to hide your whereabouts and escape quietly back to Guanzhong has become an empty talk?
Li Chengzhi gritted his teeth with hatred.
It’s like seeing a ghost. Where did the horse thieves and Hu merchants appear from in the middle of the night?
Fortunately, he was not dead, but he happened to be hit by himself?
As long as there are one or two hours in the morning, I will definitely find a way to avoid it instead of setting up camp...
Li Chengzhi's face darkened, and he quickly explained: "This place is so empty, there is nowhere to hide. Forget it, let's defend on the spot... In addition, prepare official flags in case of emergency..."
More than just official flags?
Li Chengzhi held in his arms the real customs clearance documents and orders from Guanzhong’s garrison.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to walk all the way to Hexi with fifty guards without hindrance, and it would be even less possible for him to blatantly go to Wuwei City to spy on him on the way to the west...
Li Liang was a little puzzled: Lang Jun actually wanted to show his official flag?
They were a group of horse thieves, and their troops were nearly twice as strong as mine. When they saw the official flag, wouldn't they be like hungry wolves seeing fat?
After a moment of doubt, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Li Chengzhi sneering faintly. Li Liang suddenly realized what he was doing.
No wonder the scouts who came to report the time did not mention anything happening in Shandan City. It seemed that not even half of the beacon towers were lit?
This group of horse thieves are most likely officers and soldiers pretending to be...
Otherwise, why are there horse thieves so close to the county seat?
In addition to the county soldiers, south of the county seat is the Hexi Racecourse. There is a Dianmu Mansion Office with officials as high as the fifth rank. There are thousands of herdsmen just herding horses.
There are thousands of households, and each household has at least one cavalryman. If you mount a horse and carry a bow, you will be a good cavalry.
How can a horse thief be so brave and not afraid of being suppressed by the Dian Mufu government office?
Li Liang was a little helpless, sighing secretly that he was unlucky to have happened into such a bad thing?
This group of officers and soldiers is really courageous: robbing Hu merchants from the Western Regions is a serious crime, 10% to 10%, and the court will get to the bottom of it...
While being suspicious, Li Liang also understood Li Chengzhi’s intention.
If they are really officers and soldiers, as long as they see the command flag of the Guanzhong garrison, they will definitely feel guilty and will most likely hit their horses and run away.
Unless we are sure that all these two hundred mounted guards will be silenced here...
Li Liang took the order and left. Not long after, the guards used lances to set up a horse-repelling formation with a circumference of about one mile outside the camp.
Close to the inner formation, another layer of armored horses was erected, and then came the armored soldiers, all holding bows and bags, waiting in full formation.
Li Chengzhi was surrounded in the middle, with his crotch on his horse and his head raised, looking eastward.
Next to it stands a connected flagpole, which is two feet high. There is a lantern hanging underneath, which will be lit and raised when necessary to show the identity...
From time to time, scouts returned to the camp to report urgently that many broken soldiers were fleeing this way, and there were many pursuers behind them
Li Chengzhi couldn't help but sigh.
When I think about it, the result will be like this: I can’t hide it at all!
But what else?
We can only hold steady first, frighten away this group of "horse bandits", and then set off immediately and drive through the night.
As for whether anyone will ask about it in the future?
Since there can be officers and soldiers pretending to be horse thieves, who can guarantee that there will not be "thieves" pretending to be officers and soldiers of Guanzhong Guards House?
Just refuse to admit it to death...
Just as I was thinking about it, the horn sounded again not far away.
This is not an enemy, but a scout sent by Li Liang.
The bronze whistle is unique to Li Chengzhi's command. Even Xi Kangsheng's personal armored cavalry has not yet begun to equip it. In order to avoid exposing the identity of the White Armor Battalion, Li Song has long ago stopped using it.
Li Chengzhi's bodyguards are required for each one, but it is even more impossible to use a copper whistle to warn when a foreign enemy is approaching, so they will naturally replace it with a cornet.
The trumpet was blown three times in a row, short and urgent, indicating that the enemy cavalry had arrived within a hundred feet.
Without having to listen carefully, Li Chengzhi could already hear the clear sound of horse hooves, as well as the sound of someone shouting and roaring.
Li Liang shouted: "Lift!"
With an order, the fifty personal guards on the east wing raised their bows and arrows, half-cocking and half-releasing, ready to go.
In just eight or nine breaths, Li Chengzhi saw about twenty or thirty horsemen galloping towards this direction.
I don’t know how many pursuers are behind me, but just by listening to the galloping horses’ hooves, I can guess that they number more than fifty or sixty.
Li Chengzhi was very helpless.
This group of Hu businessmen were chased so hard that they had no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth, and they couldn’t even use their brains?
I just know to run towards the place with bright light, but why don’t I think about it, at this time, the brighter the place, the more dangerous it is?
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly and took a breath: "Blow the gong, light the lamp, and shoot the arrow..."
Just hearing a loud "bang" sound was like a thunder in the plains.
Then there was another "swish, swish, swish", as if countless birds were flying past my ears, and as if a honeycomb had been stabbed, hundreds of wasps came out of the nest, huddled together, and made bursts of buzzing.
Ming.
Almost at the same time, screams rang out one after another not far away, like a live pig being pushed to the chopping board, howling so hard that Li Chengzhi's eardrums were about to burst. p>
There were also some Hu merchants who were quick to alert, reined in their horses fiercely, and tried to bypass the two wings of the spear array.
There is no Hu businessman who is not stained with the blood of Han people. Li Chengzhi has long wanted to kill two people to relieve his hatred. Now that he has already taken action, how can he be soft-hearted?
I just heard Li Chengzhi shout coldly: "Cum again!"
The guards on both wings did not pause or take aim. They just followed the gaps in the horse formation and fired outwards. The front formation also drew the bow string again, and dozens of arrows were thrown into the air and fell diagonally.
Just listen to the "Puff" sound of bows and arrows hitting the ground, and horses fell to the ground one after another. As soon as the knight fell off his horse, before he could scream, countless arrows shot out and nailed him...
…
Hu Shang, who was howling and running away before blinking, within a few breaths, was like a chicken or duck that was grabbed by the neck, and instantly became silent.
Only a few horses are still struggling.
Dead...those Hu Shang's guards were all dead in the blink of an eye?
"Stop... stop... I'm deaf, stop... for grandpa..."
A burst of angry shouts and curses came from the chasing cavalry formation.
Just hearing a burst of urgent shouting, the dozens of pursuing soldiers seemed to be desperate to use their strength, holding the horse's reins hard.
Horses neighed one after another, and some horses even stood up...
Are you good at riding?
Using the torch in the hands of the pursuers, Li Chengzhi sneered repeatedly as he looked at the group of cavalry parked about ten or twenty feet away.
If you just look at their appearance, everyone would think that this is a group of horse thieves: some are bare-chested, some are wearing leather robes, and some are wearing sheepskin-like vest-like clothing.
The hair is also messy, like a piece of rotten felt. Even though it is ten or twenty feet away, you can still smell the strong smell of mutton.
But even if you don’t speak fluent Chinese, why don’t you change your accent?
Good guy, Guanzhong speaks more authentically than you do?
Li Chengzhi has already determined that this is a group of officers and soldiers.
But they are probably not guards from Shandan County, but nine out of ten, they are herdsmen from Hexi Racecourse.
Because the smell of mutton cannot be faked temporarily.
Moreover, such exquisite equestrian skills cannot be practiced by ordinary guards.
Li Chengzhi was sizing up this group of horse thieves, who were also wondering about the origins of the group in front of them?
There were only fifty or sixty horse thieves on horseback, and every one of them would be so frightened that his soul would fly out!
This military formation...where did it come from?
Like it came out of the ground, suddenly popped up?
The leader felt chills all over his body, and the hand holding the horse's rein couldn't stop shaking.
Isn't that thing that reflects the moonlight, exudes a little bit of cold light, and is so dense that it makes one's scalp numb? Isn't it a spear?
And it's as neat as if it were drawn with a ruler...
There are also those bright mirrors, which together look like an iron wall, but occasionally you can see slightly swaying things. Aren't they horses covered in full armor?
There is also a cold light shining between the gaps between the horses and behind the horses. They are also like mirrors, but much smaller. Aren't they soldiers in full armor?
You can't tell how many people there are, but just looking at the size of this formation and the number of horses in it, there seem to be nearly a thousand horses alone?
But why are there so many horses and so many people, so much like dead animals, not even making the slightest sound?
What kind of powerful equipment and what kind of strict military discipline is this?
When did such a powerful army come to the county, and not even a sound was heard on the mountain?
This is definitely not a bandit, let alone a businessman...
What joke are you telling?
If the horse bandits and Hu merchants had such equipment and military discipline, not to mention Shandan County, even the Hexi Racecourse would have been robbed...
The leader already had some vague guesses: Not surprisingly, the origins of this group of people are similar to theirs, and they all do dirty work...
But because of this, he is even more afraid: If the other party is so powerful, will he and others be silenced?
Not to mention silence, it is possible to take advantage of the situation and invade the racecourse...
The leader was shocked and stunned, and there was a dull pain in the corner of his eye. Within a few breaths, fine beads of sweat oozed out on his forehead.
He was about to whisper "Go", but when the words reached his throat, he was forcefully suppressed.
In addition to the chilling light, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in the formation?
The leader took a closer look and saw a large lantern rising on the opposite side.
When he saw the words on the lantern clearly, the leader let out a sigh of relief. It seemed as if all his energy had been drained out of him. His body suddenly shrank, and he became a few points shorter on the spot.
Guanzhong Guards House!
If the other party dares to raise his flag, it only means one thing: Grandpa knows your origins, and he also knows what you are doing. If you know what you are doing, get out of here!
This little life was saved...
As if he had been granted amnesty, the leader raised his hands tremblingly and shouted with a trembling voice: "Thank you..."
As soon as he finished uttering the word "thank you", he heard another urgent cry of "go".
It took dozens of subordinates to come to their senses and pull on the horse's reins with all their strength, fearing that if they took a step slower, they would die...
These soldiers really guessed it right.
If he hadn't been afraid of stirring up a hornet's nest, Li Chengzhi would have had the slightest urge to kill and silence him.
Seeing the group of horse thieves running further and further away, and finally making no sound, Li Chengzhi sighed sadly: "Let's break camp!"
I can no longer stay in this place...
Li Liang responded respectfully and quickly gave the order.
A few horses first ran out of the formation to send orders to the scouts who were out and about, so that they could explore the route first.
The rest of the guards put away their guns, and those who tidied up the tents...
……
Shandan County is about ten miles east.
Hundreds of cavalrymen formed a tight circle, and more than a hundred packhorses, camels, convoys, etc. were tightly surrounded in the middle.
About a hundred or so Hu merchants all knelt on their knees, shouting in a messy language, some in Hu, some in Chinese, and some in Sogdian. Without exception, they were all begging for mercy.
There are soldiers in the formation who are tying up people one by one, and some are searching for carriages, but the strange thing is that they don’t seem to be searching for property, but rather people.
Yuwen Yuanqing rode a big horse and stood on a hill, staring excitedly at the battlefield not far away.
I don’t know if any of these Hu merchants include the two people Gao Meng, the governor of Xiazhou, confessed to?
If he happens to be found by me, it will definitely be a great help to the Gao family.
I don’t dare to say how much of a favor I can get, but I asked Gaomeng to go to his uncle Gao Zhaogao Situ to beg for mercy and transfer him back to Luoyang without any hindrance...
Just as he was thinking about it, a horse rushed out of the formation and came at a gallop.
When he came closer, the confidant leaned forward again, put his mouth to Yuwen Yuanqing's ear, and whispered: "Lieutenant Bingdu, there are indeed women in the convoy, but they are just a few Hu Ji..."
Only a few orchids?
Yuwen Yuanqing frowned: "Have you searched carefully?"
"My subordinates have searched back and forth three times. Not only have they searched for living people and carriages, but they have also searched for the bodies of those who were shot to death and beheaded... It is true that there are only a few Hu Ji and no Han women.
..."
Yuwen Yuanqing's heart sank suddenly.
Killed the wrong person?
But he has already been killed, can he still be brought back to life?
Just kill them all...
His eyes turned cold and he stared at his cronies closely: "Do it more cleanly..."
The confidant immediately understood and responded solemnly.